and Accenture. The company distributed ledger systems for the ASX, DTCC and others. In December 2017, ASX officially announced it would upgrade its post-trade settlement system to a blockchain platform designed by Digital Asset Holdings. In December 2018, Masters announced that she was stepping down as CEO, but would remain a board member, strategic advisor and a shareholder. In December 2015, it was posited in the media that the new Barclays CEO Jes Staley had approached Masters about running the bank’s investment banking division, however Masters indicated she was fully committed to her current role at Digital Asset Holdings. From 2015 to 2016 she was the Chair of the Board of Santander Consumer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: SC), a full-service, technology-driven consumer finance company. Private Equity In late 2019 Masters joined Motive Capital Partners, a private equity firm. In September, 2021 Motive announced that she was leading Motive's acquisition of Forge Global, a pre-IPO stock marketplace, in a SPAC transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. Personal life Masters is Co-Chair of the Board of the Global Fund for Women, a board member of both The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and ID2020, and the former Chair of the Board of the Greater NY Affiliate of the breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She is an amateur equestrian. References External links Crains New York 40 Under 40 Profile The Daily Pennsylvanian Living people 1969 births English economists British women economists JPMorgan Chase people People from Oxford Women chief executives People associated with cryptocurrency